Hey guys, today we are going to find something truly spectacular. We are going to find the musical instrument used by Lord Shiva. And this is supposed to be 10,000 years old. And this is going to be one of a kind. And you can see we are in the middle of nowhere but we are going to find this instrument today. This place is called Kanchanagiri in south India and this is the place where Lord Shiva has his musical instrument. It is somewhere over here and it is my job to find it.
So this is the musical instrument of Shiva and it is 10,000 years old. And you may say, well we did not have metals 10,000 years ago. I mean human beings did not use metals 10,000 years ago. Well, they did not use metals to create this instrument. We don’t know how this was created or if it is a natural formation. You don’t need a metal to strike this. I can simply use another stone…. see the reverberation. And for example, if you don’t touch this stone..you can still hear it .. like a tuning fork. let me try this.. you see there is no sound coming from this..right? there is no sound… But if I put this on top of this..you can see how it is basically taking the musical property of this on to this. This is a very strange phenomenon.
So I got the hammer when I heard about this Shiva’s musical instrument… I got a few drumsticks you know.. to play it as a drum.
Ok you may wonder why I am really standing in this awkward position..out of breath. Because it is just impossible to access it. You cannot take your vehicle whether it is a car or motorcycle. You cannot even walk, you basically have to do rock climbing… to get up and see.. this Shiva’s instrument…and of course it is totally worth it if you get up here.. but it is not for the physically weak.
And locals say something very important. On top of this rock, you cannot see a plant.. you cannot see an ant crawling.. you cannot see insects.. at night times, no animal will walk on this.. because this rock supposedly emits a strange energy. And we are going to find out if there is a strange energy coming out of this rock. We have something called a ghost meter. We will use that gadget to see if this emits some kind of energy.
And there is something else that is really strange about this.. they say that if you keep tapping this rock for a certain amount of time, with the exact number of people, the rest of the rocks around this rock, will become soft as clay. And this is the procedure that ancient builders used..they basically used the sound of these rocks to create very soft material from rock and this is why these amazing megalithic structures were built. And once we stop tapping on this rock, now whatever was as soft as clay, will slowly harden and become a regular rock. Is it possible that such a technology exists? I mean look at our civilization, we have these amazing buildings.. you know these enormous structures. Why did we get this advanced? Because we are capable of using electrical energy. At some point in time, we started to harness electric energy. But how did these amazing megalithic structures get built in ancient times? Did ancient people harness sound energy?
The name of this rock as you can see here.. there is this..faint blue paint over there. It says ‘Mani Paarai’ in Tamil which basically means a Bell Rock or a Rock Bell – that’s what it means. Of course it is obvious why this is the bell rock because it basically creates a ringing sound that’s audible to a very long distance, at least a kilometer I would say.
is this the only rock in the world which rings like a bell? That’s not true. There are several ringing rocks around the world – there is one in Pennsylvania I have visited.. and it has a lot of rocks. And all of them are ringing rocks. These are technically called sonorous rocks in geology.

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